Facebook's Rosetta Can Understand Text in Images - Geek News Central

Facebook has created and deployed a large-scale machine learning system named Rosetta. It can extract text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames, in a wide variety of languages .
This is excellent news for people who use screenreaders, because it will make the text in images, videos, and memes understandable for people who are blind or visually impaired. I applaud Facebook's initiative to make the internet more accessible for people who have vision issues.
In addition, Rosetta will be able to not only understand the text in images but also the...Read more ...

Facebook Debuts Rosetta AI That Can Decipher Text In Memes

Using plaintext to post status updates and spread hate messages can be easily picked up by systems designed to scan and filter text. However when this text is put into memes, images, and videos, it becomes a bit tricky, especially since one can easily swap out a video or image for a new one with existing text. This is one of the challenges that Facebook faced and one that they're taking head on with a new AI that they're calling Rosetta. According to Facebook, “It extracts text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames , daily and in real time, and...Read more ...